this article tries to compare two contiguous concepts inzoroaster’s gāthas, “spэništa mainyu”- “spэnta mainyu”, withtwo others in ibn arabi’s mystical system, “al-fayḍ al-aqdas”-“al-fayḍ al-muqaddas”. by this comparison, we are in quest ofarraying an explanation of two basic concepts of the gāthaswithin the theories of a major figure of islamic mysticism ratherthan corresponding these two to th...

During the Sassanid Empire in Persia (226-652 AD), there was a renaissance of humanistic sciences, including medicine, in the city of Gondi-Shapur. When the Islamic center of power moved to Baghdad in about 750 AD, physicians of Gondi-Shapur, including the dean of the medical school (a Nestorian Christian), gradually moved to Baghdad constructing hospitals and medical schools. Aided by the Pers...

BACKGROUND Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi, known as Ibn al-Nafis (1210-1288 AD), was a Muslim Syrian physician primarily famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. The most voluminous of his books is Alshamel fi Sana'at tebbi'at, which is a comprehensive medical encyclopedia. It comprised 300 volumes of notes, from which only ...

ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m hooshang a‘lam ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m hooshang a‘lam this is an unpublished work by the late dr. hooshang a‘lam on ibn far?gh?n’s djaw?mi‘ al-‘ul?m. the work has been written in french and translated into persian by mrs. negar naderi. the scan copy of dr. a’lam’s handwriting is provided at the end of the article. this is an unpublished work by the late...

In his polemic composition al-Radd ‘alā Ibn al-Naghrīla al-Yahūdī, Abū Muḥammad ‘Alī b. Aḥmad Ḥazm al-Andalusī (994/1064 CE) attempts to demonstrate the Jews’ taḥrīf (falsification) of Torah by citing several examples. This article intends shed some light on an important aspect Ḥazm’s rhetoric as reflected in al-Naghrīla. I argue, however, that juxtaposing arguments with relevant Jewish sources...

analysis and the explanation of the document of nawader al-hekmah rejalprincipleabstractone of the traditional methods of assessment of narrations and recognition of narrators has been to correctnarrations in analogy in the primary grounds and then makesome of them exception. today, many following ibn al-walid (b. 343 ah. ) –who excludedthe narrations of a group of narratorsofnawader al-hekmaho...

prominent topic, with further contributions in physics, astronomy, mechanics, cosmology, and psychology. The questions addressed largely consist of the puzzles of the curious layman (e.g. why is the sky sometimes red, how do flies stick to walls, etc.), presented in the style of the Greek problemata literature. The arguments offered in response are, as one would expect, essentially Aristotelian...

after introducing three famous grammarians –ibn-e-malek, ibn-e- aqil and al-soyuti– the authors of this article try to compare and contrast the tow well-known explications of ibn–malek`s alfiyya, by ibn-e-aqil and al-soyuti. the authors refer to the similarities and differences between the two explications and give examples from both works. the main purpose of this article is introduce th...